Meanwhile, after coming to power in 2014, though the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) understood the enormity of the problem it decided to make do with engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) as a stop-gap measure.

Under cross-border electricity trading, each country can plan for lesser capacity as well as lesser reserves that may be required when tripping happens. It is always economically beneficial to interconnect and share resources.

The formation of a robust cross-border framework in the South Asia region is expected to bring down the cost of electricity and allow India to achieve the flexibility to regulate the intermittency of power generated by its wind and solar farms.

Development of India’s energy infrastructure will involve huge investments in oil & gas infrastructure of more than $100 billion, including in exploration and production of oil & gas, oil refining, pipelines, city gas distribution networks and LNG terminals.

Infrastructure investments by Indian states need to rise to nearly Rs 110 trillion over the next decade (fiscal 2021-2030), or 3.5 times an estimated Rs 32 trillion in the current decade, if the country is to achieve its mammoth infrastructure buildout targets, analytics firm CRISIL projected on Tuesday.

Indian Railways is the fourth-largest rail network in the world, with a track length of 115,000 km and around 8,500 railway stations carrying an average of 26 million passengers a day, and over 1.2 billion tonnes of freight in 2017-18.

Water availability is an issue that has long persisted. Since the gap between demand and supply of safe drinking water is going to increase with rapid urbanisation, there is a need to evolve several water supply methods, schemes and processes.

Agree. Developing a domestic transshipment port is a good idea if we talk about seaports, there are several countries and commercial centers around the world that don’t have a seaport and these countries have to use the seaports of other countries in order to import or export their cargo, which will give a competitive advantage.

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kishore tamidela says:

Adhering to international best business practices with niche boutique firms could open doors to easily tap financing from institutional investors both debt and equity.